Word: contestable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much of a contest, but it did at least familiarize Pakistanis with election techniques against the day when a constitution is written and a freer democracy promised. Voters marked their ballots in curtained privacy, dropped them in padlocked steel ballot boxes; after tally clerks had tabulated the results, fleet couriers hopped on horse or camel, or jumped into autos or motorboats, to hurry to the nearest telegraph office. Many Pakistan electors decorated their ballots with Urdu or Bengali verses in praise of Sandhurst-trained Field Marshal Ayub, attached bills and checks payable to Ayub's favorite uplift projects...
...Author Dahl perhaps gives the game away in Parson's Pleasure and Genesis and Catastrophe but makes amends in Royal Jelly, where the plot is nobly saved by an ingenious double ending. Some of the others earn high marks: William and Mary features a neat and neatly solved contest between a wife and her dead husband's brain, which lives on in a basin; Georgy Porgy shows how a man can literally lose himself in a woman...
...Beauty Contest Sir: Unless a woman is downright homely, it seems all magazines and newspapers use such exaggerated terms as "beautiful, glamorous and hand some" when describ ing all females. Now TIME [Feb. i] comes up with "handsome" to describe...
...overriding emergency such as World War or Great Depression looms on the November horizon to overshadow them. A historian of U.S. presidential elections might well have to go back to 1012, with its clashing tides of opinion on tariffs and regulation of Big Business, to find a presidential contest in which issues were as significant as they promise to be in 1060. So far no hopeful in either party has nailed together a complete issue platform (the closest: New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller - TIME, Dec. 28). But most candidates have begun to sense that they...
...responsibilities were "relatively narrow" and that his requests had been refused by "my superiors" (i.e., Defense Secretary Thomas Gates and President Eisenhower), and he accepts the decisions and respects the men who made them. General Lyman Lemnitzer, the Army Chief of Staff, said he did not plan to contest a recent Budget Bureau decision to withhold $137 million in Army funds for the Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile...